Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 12:34:21 -0000 (UTC)
Subject: 3.5m Night Log 20101014
From: "Gabrelle Saurage"
                       Apache Point Observatory
                       3.5m Telescope Night Log
                       Thursday, October 14, 2010
                                                        ACTUAL
 ASTRONOMER      OBSERVER(S)            INSTRUMENT     START  FINISH
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T.Snow           J.Destree           ARCES            19:06    00:55
W.Ketzeback      G.Saurage           ARCES / Tspec    00:55    02:02
E.Hilton         S.Schmidt           Triple-Spec      02:05    06:30
   INST       SCHEDULED     WEATH     EQUIP      OBS     NOT USED
 I/ROW/DN   START  FINISH   D    B    D    B    D    B    D    B
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CU04/R     18:40   01:00    0    0    0    0   0.5  5.8   0    0
DD02/R     01:00   02:00    0    0    0    0   1.0  0.0   0    0
DD05/R     02:00   06:59    0    0    0    0   5.0  0.0   0    0
note: scheduled times listed include instrument change time
              ------------- ACTIVITY LOG --------------
Observing Specialist:    G.Saurage
Photometric night. Good seeing.
Several problems on Ob1 tonight:
 20:16 TUI locked up after clicking the nfocus script (when it worked once before in
the night); had to force quit and restart TUI.
 00:35 catalog failure, took many quits and restarts to get the catalog to work,
discovered if TUI is not connected you can open a catalog that will become
available when you log back in (?)
Second half sending messages would lag behind a good 15-20 seconds then suddenly all
catch up.
 03:30 TUI disconnected me and did not send updates to my observer at the same time.
(The last two may have been because of some work Russet was trying to do on tron).
First several slews (maybe first 6 to 8 slews), all reported slippage in the Alt drive.
eAur files are in the normal directory. Did echelle and tspec.
                    ------- FAILURE LOG -------
PROG   INST   FAILURE MODE     TIME
    (SEDFNVOG)   TI/SHU    START  FINISH  DESCRIPTION
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            ---------------- FOCUS LOG ---------------
Time  Instrument  Focus     Az  El  Temp Strc Prim  Sec  Air  filt  FWHM
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 19:20 ECHELLE   308( -287) -21  75   9.0 12.4 10.3 10.9 12.1   ND3  0.93
 21:29 ECHELLE    77( -646) -77  53   9.4  9.5  9.0  8.0  8.8   ND3  0.69
 00:59 ECHELLE   122( -676) 121  48   7.8  7.8  8.1  7.0  7.7   ND3  0.95
 01:35 TSPEC     127(  558) 122  56   7.4  7.6  7.7  6.7  7.3        1.10
 02:09 TSPEC     116(  533) 237  60   8.2  7.4  7.6  6.4  7.2        1.21
               ------------- WEATHER LOG ----------------
                                   Wind                      Precip.or
     Time   Temp F Dewp F  MPH  Direction    Dust    Sky    Conditions
    ------------------------------------------------------------------
     16:00    57    37      5   266    (W)    853    clear     none
     17:00    53    36      5   276    (W)    780    clear     none
     18:00    53    36      7   263    (W)    859    clear     none
     19:00    48    33      3   255  (WSW)    799    clear     none
     20:00    48    32      1   225   (SW)    762    clear     none
     21:00    49    32      3   192  (SSW)    819    clear     none
     22:00    48    33      1   180    (S)    868    clear     none
     23:00    49    32      4   185    (S)    839    clear     none
     00:00    46    32      6   182    (S)    834    clear     none
     01:00    46    32      6   185    (S)    766    clear     none
     02:00    46    31      6   184    (S)    741    clear     none
     03:00    46    32      4   185    (S)    903    clear     none
     04:00    46    32      5   202  (SSW)   1017    clear     none
     05:00    46    32      5   251  (WSW)    928    clear     none
     06:00    44    28      3   247  (WSW)    730    clear     none
     Note: the wind was coming from the azimuth listed.
     The convention used is north=0 degrees, east=90 degrees.
     The dust count is particles > 1u per 0.1 cubic feet.
                        TELESCOPE STATUS
    Telescope drives operational. Current TCC version: 2.13.0
    Current TUI version: 1.8.2